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Think of the Orthodox Church and all its members like a family; big, at time fractious, sometimes mysterious to non-members, and with its own histories and squabbles and rituals and pursuing a very organic development according to its own terms and its own internal rules. And like a family, the...

Jump to conclusions at all?

n.b. I was not there, so I cannot confirm this personally, but many people told me that this happened: http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=5004 I can confirm the presence of banners suggesting that Ukraine has no need for autocephaly and the Church there should be run directly...

Thanks for the link. You might see my monkey face in the video somewhere, but I doubt it. I have not looked. That is some genuinely bizarre reporting. It seems to be some generic phrases rammed together, but the end result makes it sound as if Alexei doesn't want unity.

Tell me what you wish to know. As an aside, I tend to distrust the reporting on Ukraine or Russia that you find in most news sources. Even where I wonder if we are talking about the same country. Western reporters in Ukraine tend to come in two flavors - those with an agenda to push and...

I might as well tell you what I saw, since I live in Kiev. I do not mean to offend, but I will tell you what I heard and saw. Full and fair disclosure: I agree with Mike's analysis of the situation in Ukraine, but I would not be as nice about it if it were me. I. There had been some talk...

Wowzaa. Besides the two minutes of my life that I will never get back, is there any way to remove any contact info from this website? I don't want them or him or whatever to get fasle notions of his popularity. Yeah, I know, I should have just looked at the linkname and figured it out.

of course.

n.b. onions are not good for dogs. Other than that, my dog gets mostly raw mets, veggies, other "natural" foods. But no onions.

"Once more unto the breach, dear friends." and my prayers.

My dog is a communist, so he ignores the fast.

Ow! Yowzaa! My sympathies and my prayers.

I have never seen it in Russia. I always thought it refered to the woman who touched the hem of Christ's robe, that even the least contact with the Lord will make us well.

As I recall, the last time this was discussed, NATO went on a bombing campaign.

I am glad to hear that you and your girlfriend are (mostly) all right. Sorry about the car - I hope the other guy is insured.

I have no idea whether the Guadelupe appearance is genuine or not. That said, I am yet to hear of a genuine appearance of the Theotokos where the Virgin said something like: "There is a true Church, Senor Diego, but you've never heard of it, and you are not likely to, living as an...

Do the Albanian irridentists also have claims on any portion of Greek territory? If (now) mostly ethnically Albanian Kosovo can secede from Serbia, why can't the mostly ethnically Serb portions of Bosnia and Croatia secede? I am a cat and somewhat slow to get these things so I would...

"Prawnik" (pronounced similar to "pravnik" in Serbian) also means "lawyer" in Polish. How I came by this name is a long story, but I am a lawyer IRL.

I don't think Albania is in a state to invade anything. KLA guerillas are another matter, although they will call themselves something other than "KLA". The last time the KLA tried, it did not go so well, but now they will have "state" support and a base beyond the borders of Macedonia to...

Seems fairly simple as a matter of formal logic: there is a finite set of canonical Orthodox jurisdictions in North America, and if a given website/church is not included within that set, it isn't canonical. As an informal matter, the problem is even simpler - if you have to ask "is this...